Thread: How long does it take?

I've caught fish in beds 2 days after dropping the beds in. PVC tends to take longer to start producing than wood structure.
All I ever put in is either stake beds or PVC bucket beds.
I will say as I'm sure your aware of is that current, depth, time of year, water clarity, and water elevation all either help or hurt whether they produce immediately.

Picture this. You take about 15 long 2X4s fishing with you. When you get to the place you want to fish you start driving them into the river bottom at a depth they will reach and 15-20 feet apart. After you get them all in you go back to the beginning and start fishing around them and catch fish. I've never done this but watched it being done and apparently this is the only way this ole man ever fished. He said if needed he would move them until he started catching fish. I did watch him catch a few crappie but I believe he was mostly after white perch. I am/was too lazy to do to that much work but it worked. I just had a thought - spray a bottom section of the 2X4 with slab sauce before putting them in. I don't think there was such a thing back then.

no joke,my wife and I put out some bamboo,we went back over it 30 minutes later,just to see if it had settle like we wanted it,we caught 2 nice slabs of off it that day.i believe crappie are somewhat curious they wanted to see what had fallen in the water,so they came to check it out.we did put it close to where we knew fish were using.

Time of year , lake , depth , temperature , and what you make them out of are a few factors . Seen them never hold fish , fish next day , and some seasonal . Not one fits all .